Yearly Archives: 2013

Balcombe Great Gas Gala – Day 4 In Pictures

Updates: Day 12, Day 11, Day 10, Day 9, Day 8, Day 7, Day 6, Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1, The Great Gas Gala Website Fracking company Cuadrilla Resources are trying to start drilling in Balcombe, West Sussex and the community is trying to stop them. Over 250 people stopped […]

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Balcombe Great Gas Gala – Day 3 In Pictures

Fracking company Cuadrilla Resources are trying to start drilling in Balcombe, West Sussex and the community is trying to stop them. Over 250 people stopped 15 trucks bring on equipment on Day 1 (Thurs). Updates: Day 12, Day 11, Day 10, Day 9, Day 8, Day 7, Day 6, Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, […]

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Knitting Nannas take on the unconventional gas industry

Knitting Nannas take on the unconventional gas industry

Love your Nannas? The Knitting Nannas against Gas have emerged as a brilliantly creative force against the unconventional gas industry. Now with their very own UK Chapter (based in Balcombe), Australian Nannas make their voices heard by knitting gracefully outside protest sites, at court appearances of those arrested – even at the offices of local […]

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Balcombe Great Gas Gala – Day 2 In Pictures

Fracking company Cuadrilla Resources are trying to start drilling in Balcombe, West Sussex and the community is trying to stop them. Over 250 people stopped 15 trucks bring on equipment yesterday. Updates: Day 12, Day 11, Day 10, Day 9, Day 8, Day 7, Day 6, Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day […]

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Balcombe Great Gas Gala – Day 1 In Pictures

Fracking company Cuadrilla Resources are trying to start drilling in Balcombe, West Sussex and the community is trying to stop them. Updates: Day 12, Day 11, Day 10, Day 9, Day 8, Day 7, Day 6, Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1, The Great Gas Gala Website See Fracking In Balcombe: […]

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Cuadrilla boss in new lobbying scandal

Cuadrilla boss in new lobbying scandal

                            It recently emerged that the man who runs fracking company Cuadrilla and who also works in government – Lord John Browne – lobbied Dept of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) chiefs four times in eight months last year. A Freedom of […]

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Don`t Frack Our Future - Doreen`s Story

Don`t Frack Our Future – Doreen`s Story

Unconventional gas exploration is threatening the UK. Licenses have already been granted by the Government with little or no community consultation. The scale of the industrialisation and impacts are never discussed. This film charts Doreen and John’s journey from the shock of the drill rigs arrival to the sickening realisation that their lives and the […]

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Nigel Lawson deception: fracking contaminated water at 120 sites in Pennyslyania

Nigel Lawson deception: fracking contaminated water at 120 sites in Pennyslyania

Fracking apologist Nigel Lawson recently made some rash claims on BBC’s Radio 4’s Any Questions. Lawson claimed “there is not a single authenticated case of fracking causing water contamination in the US.”  When opponents claimed that US wells had leaked gas and chemicals into groundwater, Lawson invited his opponents to “name them”. So we thought […]

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